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D day and after
My preparations, to clear the rooms as much as possible (the reason for my absence lately), paid off. The furniture wasn't the problem. It was the boxes of household contents; there were so many of them. Each piece of furniture I could picture and had decided where each should go, but I had reckoned without so many boxes. Apart from food, I shall not buy anything else for a long time. The house is too full.
So far I have discovered no casualties of the move, although I found what I think are the washing machine's transit bolts in a box I opened today. When my house was cleared one of the removal men said he'd insert them. Looks like he didn't.
I let the fridge and the freezer rest overnight and turned them on this morning. Both worked. I should have washed the inside of the fridge yesterday and let it dry; it smells slightly musty. Oh well, a slightly smelly fridge is the least of my problems. Where to put everything is the main problem. On Thursday a house clearance firm is coming to take away unnecessary furniture so at least the garage will be clearer.
Went to the tip early today to dump various things that I shouldn't have bothered, and paid, to have stored; a chest of drawers that was falling to pieces, eight plastic-covered wire containers that were shedding plastic, an enormous cardboard box of bubble-wrap, and bags and bags of plastic bags.
Looking through the drawers of my desk, which the men had a job to assemble yesterday, I came across three screws; they must belong to the desk. I will have to look for holes missing screws, but not today.
Thought for today
But nothing has or will go right now for the West in Iraq. We have needlessly replaced one ailing, flabby dictator with mankind's worst enemy--chaos.
Kevin Toolis, The Times, 11 November 2006
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